Improvement in horse-rakes



driver.

UNITED STATES W[LLIAM M. PIATT, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

WEST LIBERTY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. PIATT, West Liberty, Logan county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in I Horse Hay-Rakes; and I do hereby decla-re the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication.

My improvementrelates to the class of hayrakes adapted to be drawn over the ground by a horse or other animal.

Figure 1 is a' perspective view of a machine i embodying my improvement. gitudinal section ot' the same. i

A and B represent, respectively, the head and teeth or tines ot' a customary revolving rake, which journals at (l C to-a frame, D, to Whose fore part the team is hitched. Linked to the frame D, a little above the rake-head, are the shafts E E( of my buggy F.

G G are two standards or posts rising from the frame of the buggy and supporting the gudgeons H H ot' a suspended seat, I, for. the

Fig. 2 is a 1on- J is a leveror trigger connected by link K to the rake-head, and having hinged to and depending loosely from it a'pair of dogs, M

M', Whose hooks on are adapted to engage a pair of adjacent tines on the rear side of the head. The dogs M M are restricted to their proper motion by a yoke, N, attached to' an arni, L, which depends g rigidly from the trigger, and being caused to engage the rear teeth of the rake hold the same to its Work until liberated by the operator. The rake having inadea revolution and deposited its load is again engaged by the operator through the medium of the trigger J. The act ot' liberation is initiated by simply elevating the trigger J, so as to cause the points ot' the forward tines to catch in the ground, and thus elevate the rear tines. This action operates to Withdraw the rear tines endwise from the dogs, which, being held back by the cord l?, slip o from and liberate the rake-head for a semi-revolw tion.

I claim herein as new and of myinvention* The arrangement of engaging and rcleasin g mechanism J K L M N P, all constructed and operating as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony of which invention Ihereunto set my hand.

WM. M. PIATT.

Witnesses GEO. H. KNIGHT, J AMES H. LAYMAN; 

